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cosherer Ireland.|ˈkɒʃərə(r)| Also 7 cash-. [f. cosher v.1 + -er1.] One who coshers, or lives by coshering.
1634–5Stat. Ireland 10–11 Chas. I, c. 16 An Act for the Suppressing of Cosherers and Idle Wanderers. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 13 There are yet to spare, who are Casherers and Fait-neants, 220,000. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 153 Commissions were scattered profusely among idle cosherers who claimed to be descended from good Irish families. 1865Times 11 Mar., A ‘cosherer’ is one who pretends to be an Irish gentleman, and will not work. |